EPA-HSE Environment Health and Well Being Annual Conference 2018

1. #environment&healthconference2018
Welcome
EPA-HSE Environment,
Health & Wellbeing
Annual Conference
7th November 2018
Radisson Blu Royal Hotel,
Golden Lane, Dublin

2. To share and discuss environment, health &
wellbeing research and data knowledge systems
EPA-HSE Environment,
Health & Wellbeing
Annual Conference
#environment&healthconference2018

3. 08:30 – 09:30 Refreshments & Registration
Session 1 Chair: Laura Burke, Director General, EPA
09:30
09:40
10:10
10:30 – 10:45
Opening of Conference & safety
announcements
Keynote Presentation:
Humans are a part of nature and
not apart of it: this and related
learnings, insights and wisdoms.
Horizon Scanning – EU and Global
mega-trends for Environment,
Health and Wellbeing research.
Q & A
Laura Burke, Director General,
EPA
Sir Timothy (Tim) Smit, KBE
Founder of the EDEN Project,
Cornwall. EDEN aims to
promote an understanding and
practise of responsible
management of the vital
relationship between the
environment, people and
resources.
Professor Mike Depledge
European Centre for
Environment and Human
Health, University of Exeter
Medical School.
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee, tea & catch-up
Session 2 National EPA-HSE funded Research Activities
11:15 – 13:00 Chair: Dr Stephanie O’Keeffe, National Director of Strategic
Transformation and Planning, HSE
12 minutes
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12 Minutes
20 Minutes
12:35 – 13:00
Investigating the effects of the
environment on health using
spatially-linked survey and
environment data.
Water JPI Project – Stopping
Antibiotic Resistance Evolution in
the Environment (StARE)
Impact of residential solid fuel
burning on air quality and health.
Green and blue spaces and health :
a health-led approach.
Silver nanoparticles, the
environment and your health –
what do we know and what do we
need to know (DeTER Project).
Results of the HSE-EPA
Environmental, Health & Wellbeing
Research Needs Project.
Q & A
Dr Anne Nolan
ESRI
Dr Thuy Do
NUI Maynooth
Professor John Wenger
University College Cork
Dr Ronan Foley
NUI Maynooth
Dr Dearbháile Morris
School of Medicine, NUI
Galway
Dr Tom McCarthy
CIRCA Group Europe,
Consultants
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Environment, Health & Wellbeing Annual Conference 2018 Agenda
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4. EPA-HSE Environment, Health & Wellbeing Conference 2018 Agenda
Session 3 Workshop on Data Sharing Challenges – Environment, Health & Wellbeing
14:00- 16:00 Chair: Niall Ó Brolcháin, Insight Centre, University College Galway
The Panel led interactive workshop will discuss the challenges of sharing public data in Ireland and internationally from a policy and legislative
point of view: in particular the challenge of promoting Open Government and Open Data while at the same time ensuring that Data Protection
regulations are fully complied with.
The session will explore practical ways in which health and environmental data can be used for research and operational purposes in order to
promote our environment, health and wellbeing. The discussions will address, inter alia, big data, data access, interoperability, classification,
recording, data quality, data sharing, data profiling, data portals and data analytics from an environmental
and health point of view.
Panellists Eoin MacCuirc – Central Statistics Office
Prof. Sean Lyons – Economic and Social Research Institute
Fiona O’Rourke – Analytics Manager, Environmental Protection Agency
Prof Mathieu D’aquinn – Head of Insight Centre, NUIG
Dr Howard Johnson – Health Intelligence Unit, Health Service Executive
Dr Derick Mitchell – CEO, Irish Platform for Patient Organisations, Science & Industry
Yvonne Goff – Chief Clinical Information Officer, Integrated Information Services, HSE
Dr Adegboyega Ojo – Insight Centre, NUIG and member of DPERs Open Data Governance Board
16-16:15 Reflections & close of conference Dr Maurice Mulcahy
Regional Chief Environmental Health Officer,
HSE

5. EPA-HSE Environment, Health & Wellbeing Conference 2018
#environment&healthconference2018